A rare mix of top notch computer science and artistic expression, :: combinFormation :: is a compositing engine for web content.
This app was one of the sexiest things at ACM Hypertext both this year and last. In Java, try it out for generating “spaces for browsing, authoring, and collecting”.
Something like this as a cache explorer for Mozilla could be really neat.
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[...] At the exploratory search workshop, the latest from Texas A&M project Combinformation is included. Check page 45 of the PDF for a fresh screenshot. I talked about Combinformation back in 2004, after meeting Andruid at ACM Hypertext.Shown to right is a screen from within combinformation, remixing image and text “surrogates” from content sources. This can be used as a selection interface for freshly retrieved content, or as a browser for content already viewed serving goals of recollection and review. [...]